Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 388
but there areno figures of the skulking hyaena, which at that time was a rareif not almost extinct animal. While many figures are of real MAGDALENIAN CULTURE 357 artistic worth and reach a high level, others are more or lesscrude attempts; the composition of figures or of groups of animalsis rarely… … Fig. 178. Crude sculpture of the ibex, from the Magdalenian deposit at Mas dAzil on the right bank of the Arize. After Piette. A little less than actual size. the chamois, are executed with a sure hand. Sculpture of animalforms in the large, which begins in Solutrean times, is continuedand reaches…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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